That is utterly and completely untrue. I bought a nice pioneer DVD player at christmas 1999 for $199, which included component video and optical audio outputs. If I didn't care about either of those, I could have gotten one cheaper.
There were more expensive models, just as NOW you can still get DVD players that go for $700, but there were plenty of dvd players WELL under $299 in the US when the PS2 launched.
The PS2 beat out the dreamcast in Japan due to: -backwards compatability -RPGs (FF and DQ)
The Dreamcast was already dying. The Dreamcast announcement was on January 31, 2001, less than 1 year after PS2 was launched. The decision was probably made well before then, as production had been cut a few times before that.
If the school you went to turns out nothing but stellar workers as a matter of course, let me know which school you went to and I'll be sure to hire anyone from there without testing them heavily first. Don't generalize your experience at one excellent school to the entire higher education system
The fact is that a University degree means that you're good at going to university. Nothing more, nothing less.
"This metapackage includes the core official modules released with KDE. This includes just the basic desktop (browser, file manager, text editor, control center, panel, etc.) and important libraries and data, in addition to the aRts soundserver."
None of those speakers look high end to me. The apple one is CLOSE, but having all 3 speakers in the same enclosure will have some issues with stereo seperation. And don't get me going on the klipsh POS... while two tiny satellites and a sub you can hide away is nicer LOOKING (and is exactly what I have in my family room), never kid yourself that they sound anything but tinny and boomy.
Where's the comparison to a $150 stereo amplifier and a $250 pair of bookshelf speakers to see how much you lose by going "IPod enabled" ?
You're confusing enterprise features with SOHO features.
In a large enterprise, you'll have an OSX server doing auth/login management/print serving/etc, just as you would in a windows/AD network.
The difference is, when I bring my laptop over to your house, if you have an airport box with print server, and another mac (or software running bonjour protocol for windows/linux), I will instantly see your printer, file server, ichat client, itunes songs, etc INSTANTLY, without wondering if we're on the same workgroup name/etc.
Yes you can still do it manually and script it, but it's nice to have the easy alternative.
You've lost the plot I think trying to make analogies. If you buy business class tickets, don't complain when someone gets upgraded to first class for free and you don't.
If you want ram that will go to Xmhz, buy ram advertised to go to Xmhz. They can put out "DDR-533, but will easily hit XYZ" ram out.
What can be done in a truly Peer to Peer situation with a zero knowledge content base though?
He could pass a "rule" saying "no" to it, but how would you enforce it?
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1. ATI has NEVER provided ANY support for laptop chipsets. That is up to your laptop provider. You can get "inf fix" drivers which are the newest drivers + the device IDs to allow you to install them, but if you check out ATI's site that is spelled out very clearly.
Yes it sucks.
2. This is a known problem with almost all ATI embedded chips. If you google around, there's a utility that "forces" a new modeline into the bios temporarily. What you do is choose a modeline to replace with youre 1200x800 and it just pops right in. I don't remember the name, but if you google around you'll find it.
It is all seamless. Install office messenger for them and set it to start at bootup. DOn't give them local HD access nor shared documents access, and point them at the sharepoint intranet site. Its all automatic, and secretary jane sees that you're online when she opens the document!
That's my whole point... you can simulate this with jabber + OO + a wiki + other crap, but only for technical users. There is literally a sidebar that opens (yes you can turn it off) when you open a doc from sharepoint showing everyone who's touched that document's online status, including integrating with exchange to show when they're available if they're offline/in a meeting/etc.
The APIs are pretty good too, so you can integrate it with whatever you want. The default web services suck, but you can write your own in a few days to use REST/SOAP/whatever you want.
Where are OpenOffice's collaboration features which rival the office system?
Now, this entire setup requires eating the dogfood, drinking the poison, going the full hog, whatever, BUT, with office 12 + sharepoint V3 + LCS:
1. I am assigned a new project. I open our intranet, go to the projects site, and instantly create a new site with about 4 clicks. 2. I add my fellow team members to said site. 3. I write a design document and add it to a document library. 4. "Jim" loads up said document and looks at it. He has a question. There, IN OFFICE, is a sidebar showing that I'm online, and that I wrote the document. He clicks on me to chat in realtime about the document. 4a. Jim raises some good points, which I can't answer, so with 2 clicks he opens a discussion group about said document. 4b. Through 10 versions (tracked), and many discussions, the team comes to a final decision. We close the document discussion site and merge our changes back into the base document on the project site. 5. We start into the project. Frank now has to go onsite, with no internet access for 3 weeks. He takes his notes document off of sharepoint and saves it locally (this is what requires V3). 5a. Frank comes back 3 weeks later, plugs in, and is asked if he wants to resync with the project site. He does, and we see his updates. 6. 9 months later, the project finishes. Admins click it into read-only mode, so that we have our documents, chats, discussions, lists, etc, but cannot change them. 7. 6 months later the site is backed up and purged off of live storage.
Throughout this experience we can collaborate on documents through LCS + sharepoint + office12, take things offline, click-create project sites, etc.
Tell me an opensource solution which matches this as seamlessly.
I'm all for openoffice, and run linux at home, but office12 is something special. Is it worth the price? Possibly not. Are the entire front + back office system's features matched ANYWHERE? No.
Yes, you can run *nuke + jabber + openoffice + openxcange +..... but do they work together? Can I set up a *nuke site which links into jabber and openexchange and openoffice, so that I can see inside a document whether the creator and other relevant people are online, and have versioned discussions with them?
It takes place on your PC. Where else would it take place? No data is sent to google from picasa apart from an auto-upgrade check the first time you launch it. YOUR images never show up in a google.com or images.google.com search.
1. As others have said, the US has not yet staked its claim on France. I'm not saying you're jumping the gun, but there's plenty of other countries to take over first.
2. "right to work" has nothing to do with at will employment. "right to work" means that you cannot be forced to join the union as part of a new job.
It's called a red herring. And the other one you just used is ad hominem. We can play this all day in the playground!
His point was that the long term effect of a localized bad thing could be good. For example, think about chemotherapy, whereby you attack and weaken the cells in your body. This is a bad thing. However, the hope is that the canerous cells will die off before your healthy cells do, thus having a long term benefit.
The original poster's point was that if ebay gets bitten by this, then they (or a company like them) may (even unknowingly!) champion the way for software patent reform. You sitting in your parents basement (NOW I've used ad hominem, hooray!) will never be able to fight the problem of software patents in the US. A company with large resources and a lot to gain/lose can.
Which logical fallacy did he make again? If you'll note, YOU never actually said!
Oh, great, another one of these "you may have made a good point but I will completely ignore it due to logical fallacy XYZ" arguments. That rhetorical trick is good for scoring on sophomore girls who don't know any better, but not for serious intellectual discussion.
Sorry for the ass-ness in my reply, but sometimes you have to be blunt:)
So to make it short, using H.323 you can call another IP address. H.323 is a crappy/outdated protocol, but "why not" support it when the code's already there.
SIP uses both a signalling channel and a data channel. Long story short (and slightly technically incorrect) your client connects to a server to place the call. It's like email without a relay.
So if you call me at j@b.com (i'm a client registered as "j" on b.com's SIP server) here's what happens:
1. I log into b.com as j using Ekiga (or a hardware SIP device, or...) 2. You load up Ekiga and call j@b.com. 2b. Your Ekiga directly contacts b.com (it doesn't go to whomever you're "registered" with, hence my saying no relay) and says "connect me to j" 3. the server b.com sends your packets to me, we talk, hooray!
Depeding on the setup, 3 happens via a proxy (you send your packets to b.com, b.com sends them to me) or as a matter of signalling (b.com tells you how to send packets directly to me).
I'd guess (but haven't tried yet) that Ekiga works perfectly well as a softphone for asterisk, and would be even better if they added IAX support.
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This depends on what is doing the upscaling, and how. Using nvidias (stupidly) propriatary dvd codec, you get pretty damned close to perfect quality.
Using WMP with some default mpeg4 codec pack to play back a movie trailer...
That is utterly and completely untrue. I bought a nice pioneer DVD player at christmas 1999 for $199, which included component video and optical audio outputs. If I didn't care about either of those, I could have gotten one cheaper.
There were more expensive models, just as NOW you can still get DVD players that go for $700, but there were plenty of dvd players WELL under $299 in the US when the PS2 launched.
The PS2 beat out the dreamcast in Japan due to:
-backwards compatability
-RPGs (FF and DQ)
The Dreamcast was already dying. The Dreamcast announcement was on January 31, 2001, less than 1 year after PS2 was launched. The decision was probably made well before then, as production had been cut a few times before that.
If the school you went to turns out nothing but stellar workers as a matter of course, let me know which school you went to and I'll be sure to hire anyone from there without testing them heavily first. Don't generalize your experience at one excellent school to the entire higher education system
The fact is that a University degree means that you're good at going to university. Nothing more, nothing less.
And will the buying decision for any of you 3 be based on it being named the "Wii" ?
The very fact that you and thousands of others can talk about NOTHING ELSE is proof enough that marketing-wise, the name as succeeded.
Wow, a metapackage dependacy PROVES that KDE is bloated! Perhaps you should learn about "dpkg-query".
http://packages.debian.org/stable/kde/kde-core
"This metapackage includes the core official modules released with KDE. This includes just the basic desktop (browser, file manager, text editor, control center, panel, etc.) and important libraries and data, in addition to the aRts soundserver."
If that's still too large for you:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/kde/kdebase
"This package depends on the minimum number of packages to provide a simple yet fully functional KDE desktop."
Okay then, compare it to "all in one" systems that aren't ipod enabled. And what does a "carrying case to move the speakers" mean?
My point was that article adressed almost nothing audio quality wise, and that it was odd to call those speakers "high end."
The attach rate on the PS2 was very high (partially due to bundling, partially due to a bunch of good games coming out 1 year after launch).
None of those speakers look high end to me. The apple one is CLOSE, but having all 3 speakers in the same enclosure will have some issues with stereo seperation. And don't get me going on the klipsh POS... while two tiny satellites and a sub you can hide away is nicer LOOKING (and is exactly what I have in my family room), never kid yourself that they sound anything but tinny and boomy.
Where's the comparison to a $150 stereo amplifier and a $250 pair of bookshelf speakers to see how much you lose by going "IPod enabled" ?
Windows 5.2 is already out, and sometimes known as "windows 2003".
However, that simply makes your point.
You're confusing enterprise features with SOHO features.
In a large enterprise, you'll have an OSX server doing auth/login management/print serving/etc, just as you would in a windows/AD network.
The difference is, when I bring my laptop over to your house, if you have an airport box with print server, and another mac (or software running bonjour protocol for windows/linux), I will instantly see your printer, file server, ichat client, itunes songs, etc INSTANTLY, without wondering if we're on the same workgroup name/etc.
Yes you can still do it manually and script it, but it's nice to have the easy alternative.
Your definition of society does not jive with most civilized people.
You've lost the plot I think trying to make analogies. If you buy business class tickets, don't complain when someone gets upgraded to first class for free and you don't.
If you want ram that will go to Xmhz, buy ram advertised to go to Xmhz. They can put out "DDR-533, but will easily hit XYZ" ram out.
What can be done in a truly Peer to Peer situation with a zero knowledge content base though?
He could pass a "rule" saying "no" to it, but how would you enforce it?
1. ATI has NEVER provided ANY support for laptop chipsets. That is up to your laptop provider. You can get "inf fix" drivers which are the newest drivers + the device IDs to allow you to install them, but if you check out ATI's site that is spelled out very clearly.
Yes it sucks.
2. This is a known problem with almost all ATI embedded chips. If you google around, there's a utility that "forces" a new modeline into the bios temporarily. What you do is choose a modeline to replace with youre 1200x800 and it just pops right in. I don't remember the name, but if you google around you'll find it.
I know a company who spent 3 years trying to move to Linux and OOo, only to move back to Office + Windows XP.
Hooray for anecdotal evidence!
It is all seamless. Install office messenger for them and set it to start at bootup. DOn't give them local HD access nor shared documents access, and point them at the sharepoint intranet site. Its all automatic, and secretary jane sees that you're online when she opens the document!
That's my whole point... you can simulate this with jabber + OO + a wiki + other crap, but only for technical users. There is literally a sidebar that opens (yes you can turn it off) when you open a doc from sharepoint showing everyone who's touched that document's online status, including integrating with exchange to show when they're available if they're offline/in a meeting/etc.
The APIs are pretty good too, so you can integrate it with whatever you want. The default web services suck, but you can write your own in a few days to use REST/SOAP/whatever you want.
Where are OpenOffice's collaboration features which rival the office system?
Now, this entire setup requires eating the dogfood, drinking the poison, going the full hog, whatever, BUT, with office 12 + sharepoint V3 + LCS:
1. I am assigned a new project. I open our intranet, go to the projects site, and instantly create a new site with about 4 clicks.
2. I add my fellow team members to said site.
3. I write a design document and add it to a document library.
4. "Jim" loads up said document and looks at it. He has a question. There, IN OFFICE, is a sidebar showing that I'm online, and that I wrote the document. He clicks on me to chat in realtime about the document.
4a. Jim raises some good points, which I can't answer, so with 2 clicks he opens a discussion group about said document.
4b. Through 10 versions (tracked), and many discussions, the team comes to a final decision. We close the document discussion site and merge our changes back into the base document on the project site.
5. We start into the project. Frank now has to go onsite, with no internet access for 3 weeks. He takes his notes document off of sharepoint and saves it locally (this is what requires V3).
5a. Frank comes back 3 weeks later, plugs in, and is asked if he wants to resync with the project site. He does, and we see his updates.
6. 9 months later, the project finishes. Admins click it into read-only mode, so that we have our documents, chats, discussions, lists, etc, but cannot change them.
7. 6 months later the site is backed up and purged off of live storage.
Throughout this experience we can collaborate on documents through LCS + sharepoint + office12, take things offline, click-create project sites, etc.
Tell me an opensource solution which matches this as seamlessly.
I'm all for openoffice, and run linux at home, but office12 is something special. Is it worth the price? Possibly not. Are the entire front + back office system's features matched ANYWHERE? No.
Yes, you can run *nuke + jabber + openoffice + openxcange +..... but do they work together? Can I set up a *nuke site which links into jabber and openexchange and openoffice, so that I can see inside a document whether the creator and other relevant people are online, and have versioned discussions with them?
It takes place on your PC. Where else would it take place? No data is sent to google from picasa apart from an auto-upgrade check the first time you launch it. YOUR images never show up in a google.com or images.google.com search.
Picasa is photo management software, not photo editing software. It would be 100% worthless if it didn't index your photos.
Two major problems with your rant there.
1. As others have said, the US has not yet staked its claim on France. I'm not saying you're jumping the gun, but there's plenty of other countries to take over first.
2. "right to work" has nothing to do with at will employment. "right to work" means that you cannot be forced to join the union as part of a new job.
It's called a red herring. And the other one you just used is ad hominem. We can play this all day in the playground!
His point was that the long term effect of a localized bad thing could be good. For example, think about chemotherapy, whereby you attack and weaken the cells in your body. This is a bad thing. However, the hope is that the canerous cells will die off before your healthy cells do, thus having a long term benefit.
The original poster's point was that if ebay gets bitten by this, then they (or a company like them) may (even unknowingly!) champion the way for software patent reform. You sitting in your parents basement (NOW I've used ad hominem, hooray!) will never be able to fight the problem of software patents in the US. A company with large resources and a lot to gain/lose can.
Which logical fallacy did he make again? If you'll note, YOU never actually said!
Oh, great, another one of these "you may have made a good point but I will completely ignore it due to logical fallacy XYZ" arguments. That rhetorical trick is good for scoring on sophomore girls who don't know any better, but not for serious intellectual discussion.
Sorry for the ass-ness in my reply, but sometimes you have to be blunt :)
So to make it short, using H.323 you can call another IP address. H.323 is a crappy/outdated protocol, but "why not" support it when the code's already there.
SIP uses both a signalling channel and a data channel. Long story short (and slightly technically incorrect) your client connects to a server to place the call. It's like email without a relay.
So if you call me at j@b.com (i'm a client registered as "j" on b.com's SIP server) here's what happens:
1. I log into b.com as j using Ekiga (or a hardware SIP device, or...)
2. You load up Ekiga and call j@b.com.
2b. Your Ekiga directly contacts b.com (it doesn't go to whomever you're "registered" with, hence my saying no relay) and says "connect me to j"
3. the server b.com sends your packets to me, we talk, hooray!
Depeding on the setup, 3 happens via a proxy (you send your packets to b.com, b.com sends them to me) or as a matter of signalling (b.com tells you how to send packets directly to me).
I'd guess (but haven't tried yet) that Ekiga works perfectly well as a softphone for asterisk, and would be even better if they added IAX support.
Yes, and does anyone have any spec sheets comparing Firefox to IIS?
Or thunderbird to sendmail?
How about any comparisons on my ADSL modem to a DSLAM?
(pssst... one is a client, one is a server)